Host Analytics EPM Suite Software

Host Analytics EPM Suite is a cloud-based performance management solution that helps in automation of financial processes. Host Analytics EPM Suite is suitable for midsize to large businesses. Key features include dashboards, financial reporting and workflow management.

The solution helps to centralize data and manage financial and operational processes. Planning and forecasts allow companies to analyze the effect of projects on the overall bottom line.

The workflow planning helps users to plan and manage submissions, reviews and approvals and evaluate workflow of each department by generating workflow status report. The capital planning feature helps to analyze the performance of assets by using financial budgeting and forecasting techniques. The solution is scalable and is designed for a variety of industries such as advertising, distribution and healthcare. Support is available via phone and email.

HA is really an efficient tool which made our FP&A activities automated to certain exten

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Automation , easy to use

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Reusable formats in Reports makes Reporting easier and customer support responds usually in hours and makes our job more easy.

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I think they should have more tutorials on their Training website.

Review Source: Capterra

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February 2018

Host has helped us scale from ~200 employees to over 1k!

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- Similar to Oracle Hyperion, but in the cloud
- Lower overhead than on premise tools
- Robust platform with more advanced feature set then other cloud tools
- Solid excel integration
- Product team responds to feedback
- Fair pricing
- No limit on size of model

Host Analytics. An upgrade to our budgeting and reporting software.

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Host Analytics is easy to use. I have a large amount of product data that Host helped me organize it and use it in my business, several financial reports with the push of a button each month and budgeting too. It makes month end easier. Great customer service team always there when help is needed.

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It can be difficult to set up a report template. Not all the modules have the same reporting tools. The functionality in the HR module and capital needs improvement.

We had a quick implementation, and find that the environment is very flexible. All end users :-)

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Monthly operational reporting time reduced from 3 days to 3 hours. We built alternative hierarchies for our chart of accounts and entities, so that operations can see their relevant data in the format they prefer, whereas accounting can see it based on GAAP. Modeling transformed our budget process from Excel spreadsheets to a cloud-based solution accessible to all end users, so budget creation migrated from FP&A to the process owners. Budget consolidation process was reduced from 2 days to 2 minutes. We have also transformed to a rolling forecast using modeling, so that the annual budgets required by lenders comes from the forecasts, and is no longer a time-consuming annual task.

We have also since identified other uses for modeling, including complex calculations for our formula pricing that is based on external data imported into tables. We are also importing non-financial data to enhance our asset management deferred maintenance program.

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There are no limits to the types and volume of data that you interface within Host Analytics, as long as you maintain a common field. Implementation went well (with a consulting partner), and it enabled our budget manager to trim his reporting time from 3 days to 3 hours. The modeling module uses an Excel add-in, so the feel and use of Excel is still available, but the results are stored centralized, so when any end user retrieves data, there is one version of the truth. Customer service is second to none. In my 30+ years in planning and analysis, I have never found a team so dedicated to ensuring their customer's success. Feature updates are either monthly or quarterly, and are focused on what the customers have expressed are their needs or wishes.

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It required that we use a partner consultant to implement. This may be due mostly to the fact that as a small company, we do not have the internal IT resources; the initial implementation without a partner stalled due to resource and communication issues.

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Once set up, Host is easy to use. I have a large amount of product data that Host has helped me organize into something I can use in my business. I love how I can get several financial reports with the push of a button each month. It continues to make month end easier for me. Oh yeah, I use it for budgeting too. I originally got into Host for budgeting and it has been great for that, but I have found it great for many other things. I also love the way it can grow with me. As I use the software I realize there are more things I can do. Host customers for life team is always there to help me when I explore these possibilities.

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It can be difficult to set up a report template. Once set it is good and there are no worries. I would like to feel like I understand how it all works better, but that is a time consuming endeavor. Thankfully there is always someone available at Host to help out.

Review Source: Capterra

Lanny from Cornerstone Research

September 2017

September 2017

Using Host has been much more user friendly than our previous reporting and planning software.

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I like that it is user friendly, drag and drop feature makes it easy to run ad hoc reports. Love the line item detail and notes feature in the templates.

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I would love to be able to use the workforce reporting to run budget vs. actual HR data. I'd also love to see a dashboard available within the next year or so.

Review Source: Capterra

Pam from The Martin Agency

September 2017

September 2017

Host has helped reduce the amount of time previously spent manually keying into Excel.

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My favorite thing about Host is it has eliminated manually keying excel spreadsheets. We are able to hook into our financial system and are able to upload the data that we need which has drastically reduced the amount of human error.

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The interface is pretty dated. I also mainly use chrome as my browser and there seems to be a lag time when scrolling in a template which is a bit of a pain.

Review Source: Capterra

Nikita from Pinterest

September 2017

September 2017

Good planning tool that integrates well with excel

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Scale for team!

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We plan by detail and this tool allows us to do that. Modeling cloud is nice as it is more flexible.

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This tool is good but we did a lot of customization for CAPEX, BS, cash flow forecasting which requires a lot of time.

Review Source: Capterra

Jamie from Pinterest

September 2017

September 2017

Great for automating reporting and forecasting

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Helps to avoid human error while providing a flexible platform in which to plan and report

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I like that Host is on the cloud, is very customizable by letting us have numerous templates and allows for multiple users at once

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The software is a bit clunky at times which can lead to it running slowly. Also there are certain nuances that you have to learn which is expected

OVerall is a great tool for the ease of standardizing and managing our reports.

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Our reporting process became easier for end users. The Support and CFL team from Host also helped us tremendously for our users from day to day basis!!

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The application made reporting a piece of cake with automated distribution. The planning tool helped us standardize our budgeting process and we're very impressed with the workforce planning module that helped us easily managing our headcount and compensation estimate.

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Not the most user friendly application for budgeting purpose. The access was made easy with SSO solution, but the timeout issue causing customers to complain.

Review Source: Capterra

Megan from Genesys

September 2017

September 2017

Easy to use, customer service has not been the greatest in terms of solving our issues

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The ability to customize the reporting to pull the data needed, the ability to automatically send reports to other users

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No complaints of the software based on the limited usage for my role. Only complaint is that the customer service was not the most responsive to our needs in terms of correcting an issue we were having with the software (we ended up correcting the issue internally).

User friendly product. Great customer support

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We generate our reporting package quicker and with less errors. Our planning process runs more smoothly and efficiently again with less errors. We are able to consolidate our plans quicker.

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How easy it is to create basic reporting and customize and scheduled distribution. Interface that is scheduled nightly to automatically populate Host with data from our G/L. Consolidation of our plan is more efficient and timely so changes aren't such a nightmare to make.

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Quarterly releases are great, but they don't give you enough time to test them before they are automatically put into production.

Review Source: Capterra

David from Pinterest

September 2017

September 2017

Host Analytics has decreased our dependency on excel and has allowed us to forecast concurrently.

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We love the ease and flexibility of the tool. The monthly releases mean that the product is constantly making improvements. Administration of the core app and spotlight is straightforward and not time consuming.

We can now complete a forecast in 4 hours versus a week+ that it look using excel.

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We would love to see more data visualization features added to the core app along with a Mac compatible spotlight extension.